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Solomon cockatoo4/27/2024 "Case 1647: Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 and Cacatuinae Gray, 1840 (Aves, Psittaciformes): proposed conservation". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Pink (or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's) cockatoo Solomons cockatoo (or Ducorps's cockatoo) Yamdena, Larat and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandioli (Bacan group) in North Maluku, Indonesia Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands in IndonesiaĪustralia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia Yellow-crested (or lesser sulphur-crested) cockatoo,Įast Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas The name Cacatua is from the Malay language words Kakatuá and Kakak-tuá for the cockatoos. The type species was designated as the white cockatoo by Tommaso Salvadori in 1891. The genus Kakatoe was introduced by Georges Cuvier in 1801 but this name has been suppressed by the ICZN and instead Louis Pierre Vieillot is recognised as introducing the genus Cacatua in 1817. Today, several species from this genus are considered threatened due to a combination of habitat loss and capture for the wild bird trade, with the blue-eyed cockatoo, Moluccan cockatoo, and umbrella cockatoo considered vulnerable, and the red-vented cockatoo and yellow-crested cockatoo considered critically endangered.Īlthough the name Cacatua was used in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson he did not include it in his table of genera and Brisson is not recognised as the authority by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). They have a primarily white plumage (in some species tinged pinkish or yellow), an expressive crest, and a black (subgenus Cacatua) or pale (subgenus Licmetis) bill. Cacatua is a genus of cockatoos found from the Philippines and Wallacea east to the Solomon Islands and south to Australia.
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